“We all need reminders that there is a huge difference between coaching from the spiritual sidelines and putting skin in the game. Between advertising for the cause and actually joining it. Between talking about it from afar and getting close enough for it to affect our comfort.”
Source: Life: An Obsessively Grateful, Undone by Jesus, Genuinely Happy, and Not Faking it Through the Hard Stuff Kind of 100-Day Devotional
“Those who do not believe scripture cannot understand scripture and therefore are not qualified to try to explain scripture.”
“The words of the Bible are sources of spirit. They carry fire to the soul and evoke our lost dignity out of our hidden origins. Illumined, we suddenly remember, we suddenly recover the strength of endless longing to sense eternity in time.”
Source: Thunder in the Soul: To Be Known By God
“When it feels like He’s not hearing our prayers because we aren’t getting immediate answers, He’s still moving mountains on our behalf.”
Source: Life: An Obsessively Grateful, Undone by Jesus, Genuinely Happy, and Not Faking it Through the Hard Stuff Kind of 100-Day Devotional
“By any reasonable definition, the Christian God is an extraterrestrial. And given God’s track record of demanding human sacrifices and destroying whole cities, one could make a very strong case we are talking about an extremely malevolent force.”
Source: Cali the Destroyer
“I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.”
“The world says, “Push to the front of the line!” Jesus says, “Go to the back of the line.” The world says, “Brand yourself and blast your accomplishments all over social media!” Jesus says, “If you want to be great you have to first learn to serve.”
Source: Life: An Obsessively Grateful, Undone by Jesus, Genuinely Happy, and Not Faking it Through the Hard Stuff Kind of 100-Day Devotional
“I never met Luciano Pavarotti in life, but in his house, I felt him everywhere. The walls still sing.”
“Doctrines are truth for dumbbells, Holy books are life for the unholy. Hear all fools, all rigid corpses, Love is the only sign of divinity.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“The Bible is an anvil that has worn out many hammers.”